National Committee on Voting Integrity

Voting Activities and News

David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and a member of National Committee
for Voting Integrity, warned
election officials about using Internet Voting in 2012 because they were insecure to trust. It is estimated that 3.5 million
voters could be allowed to cast ballots via the Internet this election year.

A Michigan Univerity research team published a paper
on how they breached the City of Washington DC's Internet voting website. The City conducted a public test,
which allowed anyone to participate. A University of Michigan computer science team found a flaw in the D.C. Digital Vote-by-Mail Service.
They were able to "seize control, unmask secret ballots, and alter the outcome of the
mock election..." Because of the dramatic failure of the online voting system
the city cancelled the Internet voting option for the 2010 election.

Mission

The National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI) is an EPIC project that brings together experts on voting issues from across the country to promote constructive dialogue among computer scientists, elections administrators, voting rights advocates, policymakers, the media and the public on the best methods for achieving in practice: fair, reliable, secure, accessible, transparent, accurate, accountable, and auditable public elections. In keeping with the goal of public election administration we are working to ensure that election systems preserve the secret ballot, accuracy, privacy, integrity, and the proper tabulation of the voter's intent regardless of his or her physical condition, language of origin, or literacy ability.